Reinhold Stecher (22 December 1921 – 29 January 2013) was an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

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of the

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. Stecher was born in Innsbruck, Austria and was ordained a priest on 19 December 1947. He was appointed bishop of the

Diocese of Innsbruck The Roman Catholic Diocese of Innsbruck ( la, Dioecesis Oenipontanus) is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Salzburg (in western Austria), covering the Bundesland (state) Tyrol. Its cathedral ...

on 15 December 1980 and ordained bishop on 25 January 1981. He retired on 10 October 1997.

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(German) 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Austria People from Innsbruck 1921 births 2013 deaths {{Austria-RC-bishop-stub